News Headlines - 19 February 2013

▽BBC News - Brussels diamond robbery nets 'gigantic' haul

Armed robbers have made off with a "gigantic" haul of diamonds after a rapid raid at Brussels Airport. Disguised as police, they broke through a fence on Monday evening and broke into the cargo of a Swiss-bound plane to take the gems, estimated to be worth $50m (￡32m; 37m euros).

▽High pollution episodes recorded across UK | AirQualityNews

Air pollution has reached high levels in a number of areas of the UK today (February 19), according to the latest data from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

▽US business hits out at ‘Obamacare’ costs - FT.com

US retailers and restaurants chains that employ millions of low-wage workers are considering cutting working hours or paying fines rather than enrolling employees in health insurance plans under Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare law.

▽China’s Army Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S. - NYTimes.com

An unusually detailed 60-page study, to be released Tuesday by Mandiant, an American computer security firm, tracks for the first time individual members of the most sophisticated of the Chinese hacking groups － known to many of its victims in the United States as “Comment Crew” or “Shanghai Group” － to the doorstep of the military unit’s headquarters. The firm was not able to place the hackers inside the 12-story building, but makes a case there is no other plausible explanation for why so many attacks come out of one comparatively small area.

▽Bruce Willis on Die Hard: "I think we set a new record for smashing cars" - Telegraph

After a mural is unveiled at 20th Century Fox in honour of Bruce Willis and the Die Hard films, John Hiscock talks to Willis about his return to the franchise.